Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-23
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.

A division of Sons of Temperance, with
40 members, has been organized in Union.
Six recruits for the penitentiary were
sent up from the recent term OF Lancaster
Court.
- The criminal docket of the Circuit Court
of Walhalla was disposed of on the ,hrs'
day Of the term.
John J. Jennings, an aged white man
living near Sumter, committed suicide last
Saturday morning.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt at
Charleston and Summerville last Thursday
morning and Friday afternoon.
Russell Pool, who shot himself in the
thigh while on his way home from hunt,
in Lancaster, a few days ago, died on We'd
nesday. - N.i -
A new mail route has been opened be.
tween Pacolet, on the Spartanburg ana
Union Railroad, and Gaffney City, on the
Air Line.
James D. Tradewell, generally known
as "Jim" Tradewell and a familiar figure
about the streets of Columbia, died IN the
aims house of that city on Friday. He was
a man of brilliant mind and one OF the
bravest and most valuable scouts in the
Confederate army, but he has been for years
the victim of an incurable passion for
liquor. ......
In the Edgefeld Court of Sessions, last
week, R. T. Jones, tried for the murder OF
the old man Presley, was found guilty OF
manslaughter, and sentenced by Judge
Norton to twenty-five years in the penl-
tentiary. The case of the Culbreath lynch,
ers was continued on account Of alleged
absence of material witnesses for the de-
fence. 1t is generally conceded that this
case will never 60 to trial.
The Barnwell Sentinel thus speaks of the
peculiar sink in that county, notice OF which
we made last week: Any number OF per-
sons have visited the sink in Georges
Creek township, caused by the recent earth
quake shock, and say accounts Of it already
published are strictly true. Mr.. j. Fl. Lam
caster, on whose place the sink can be seen,
has placed on exhibition at our office
lump of clay taken from it at depth OF
twenty-five feet. The properties of this
clay seem to be largely composed OF lsln-
glass.
William Paxton, who lived in the up.
per part of Lancaster county, committed
suicide on Sunday morning of last week by
hanging himself. He was missed by his
family, who, upon making search, found
his dead body hanging to the limb OF
large tree near his house. Mr.. Paxton has
been feeble and unable to work for several
Years. III WAS SOlulcI III IiiC XAOAiSnh
war and had been trying to get pension
for some time. Recently, however, he de-
SPARED of getting it, and therefore deter
| mined to end his existence. He was about
sixty years old. A family of children sur
viye him. ...
- Two-thirds of the town of Blackville,
| including the entire business portion, was
destroyed by fire on last Wednesday. The
fire originated about o'clock in rear of the
general merchandise store of P. w. Farrell,
and before it was discovered it had gained
considerable headway. The entire town
turned out and worked heroically, but not
withstanding their efforts, in a remarkably
short time it had spread to adjoining build
ings, and in less than half an hour almost
the entire town was one mass of flames. In
two hours the entire portion of the town
east of the railroad was one mass of ashes,
twenty-seven houses having been con-
sumed. The loss is estimated at 1000;
insurance about $4,000. Many people are
homeless and without clothes or furniture,
as even what was put out of the houses was
burned in the street, broken or stolen, as the
town was soon filled with negroes from the
country, who helped some, but plundered as
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